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Commented New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "There are some people who laugh if they hear a foreign language spoken-they think that's funny." At week's end the Mayor acted. By radio he informed citizens that Oswald Whitman Knauth, Ph.D., 47, department store executive and onetime Princeton economics instructor, had been appointed "super-director" of city relief...
...Lino Rivera. It was not until 2 a. m. that he was discovered in his widowed mother's apartment. He was hastily taken to a police station house, exhibited and photographed to prove that he had not been harmed, then sent home. Following evening Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia circulated thousands of posters throughout the area urging the responsible element in Harlem to make the rest of the neighborhood behave itself. By next day Governor Lehman could tell Harlem's white merchants that the city authorities had the situation well in hand...
Every Mayor of New York City is a doughty champion of Jews. Last week like a pudgy panther Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia let himself go to 2,000 members and guests of the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress who had as guest of honor obliging Professor Albert Einstein.* "The indignation of the American people," cried Mayor LaGuardia, "cannot be traded for commerce! And therefore, Dr. Einstein, our attitude is in keeping with the best traditions of our republic. The purpose of the boycott is a protest against an arrogant, bigoted, cruel Government...
...with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors of States shook his hand as, like an ancient patriarch, Actor Harrison led his theatrical flock about the land. And the first thing he did after alighting from his train in Manhattan last week was to go and see Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. "Will I meet any politicians in Heaven, Lawd?" asked the head of the city with the world's largest Negro population (327,706). Actor Harrison graciously replied: "The question is, Mr. Mayor, will any politicians meet you there...
Birthdays, Harvard University's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 78; Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75; Hearstman Arthur Brisbane, 70; New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 52; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York...